> Actually, the _Greek_ god of the sun wasn't
Apollo -- it was
> Helios. Apollo wasn't the sun
god until the Roman era.
>From Encyclopedia
Britannica Online ("Helios" Encyclopdia Britannica Online.
<<a href=http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?xref=18099 target=new>http://search.eb.com/bol/topic?xref=18099</a> >
[Accessed 10 May 2000]. )
"From
the 5th century BC,
Apollo, originally a deity of
radiant purity, was more and more
interpreted as a sun
god. During the Roman Empire the sun itself
came to
be worshiped as the Unconquered Sun."
Seems
like a fine distinction to be making, doesn't
it?
Dave